Isaiah 40:22 · World English Bible
It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in,
The divine mind is enthroned above the whole round of the body and its physical field, seeing from a height where the busy contents of the lower nature look small and fleeting. The circle of the earth is the closed sphere of flesh and its concerns, and the inhabitants seen as grasshoppers are the swarming small thoughts and cares that fill a person, brief and hopping and countless.
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The divine mind is enthroned above the whole round of the body and its physical field, seeing from a height where the busy contents of the lower nature look small and fleeting. The circle of the earth is the closed sphere of flesh and its concerns, and the inhabitants seen as grasshoppers are the swarming small thoughts and cares that fill a person, brief and hopping and countless.
The heavens stretched as a curtain and pitched as a tent are the higher consciousness spread out as the dwelling the true self lives within, a canopy of awareness raised over the ground of the body. From that seat the spirit both surveys the small stir below and inhabits the wide calm above.
Circle of the earth: the closed round of the body and its physical concerns, the sphere the higher self is enthroned above Grasshoppers: the swarming small thoughts and cares of the lower nature, brief and countless, seen tiny from the height of spirit Heavens stretched as a curtain: the higher consciousness spread out as a canopy of awareness over the body Tent to dwell in: the field of spirit made into the dwelling the true self lives within
Esoteric lens
How much of today's weight shrinks the moment you stand somewhere higher than it?
He practices looking down on human affairs from above, where the crowds and quarrels shrink to their real size. The view does not make you cold, it makes you clear.
A teaching compares the mind to open sky and thoughts to passing weather. You are the space they move through, not the storm.
The great bird rises until mountains look like dust. From low down the small things seem enormous, which is only a report about altitude.
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